Annual or perennial herbs, with eglandular cottony hairs and stalked glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, entire, sessile. Capitula radiate (not in Victoria), disciform or rarely discoid, solitary. Capitular bracts multiseriate, herbaceous, narrow and with plumose margins or with hyaline margins; receptacle flat; outer florets female, radiate to filiform, white or yellow, fewer than the bisexual, yellow or white inner florets; stamens 5, anthers tailed; style branches truncate. Cypselas papillose with mucilage-producing hairs; pappus of uniseriate, barbellate or apically plumose bristles c. as long as corolla.
About 9 species, all endemic to Australia.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Asteridea. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 782–783. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
